The Mail-Journal, Volume 21, Number 25, Milford, Kosciusko County, 4 July 1984 — Page 14

THE MAIL-JOURNAL - Wed., July 4,1984

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North Webster News BY MARY LEE WILLMAN

Sechrist Lake woman builds hide-a-way room under house

Kay Wilson is an energetic lady who lives on Sechrist Lake and “always has to have some sort of project going.’’ it happened in -

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THOR THE XI. a 13-year-old basset hound belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Miller, was guest of honor at a surprise birthday party held June 23 at his "parents” home on Irish Lake. Party hats were worn and "Happy Birthday" was sung to the guest of honor. Thor was presented with gifts of: doggie snacks and toys, meat covered bones, ice cream bars, a chunk of cheese, a green rubber frog and coupons for dog food. Thor and his pet friends were served meat loaf cake, topped with one large birthday candle and ice cream sandwiches. His human friends were served hor d’ yores, ice cream and cupcakes.

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Kay decided, about 8 years ago, that the hill side home she shares with her sister, Lucille Hobell, needed a basement. The decision

There were 21 guests present. Pet friends: Kitty Felger, a white angora; Fritz Wiegand, a schanuzer-poodle and Thors’s second cousin; Pookie Miller, a white cat, Tomalina Miller, a calico cat; and Holly Hall a black toy poodle. Human children friends: Cortney and Kyle Regenos, Thor’s cousins; Jaimee Smith and Vanessa and Cody Felger. Adult human guests: George and Joan Wiegand, Thor’s grandparents: mary Regenos, Thor's aunt; Richard. Beverly, Denise and Bill Hall. William and Maxine Green, Kenneth and Gwen Rogers, Vicki Felger and John DeWitt. Each weekend Thor goes running, along with the neighborhood children, to greet the Good Humor man and get an ice cream sandwich. Sure enough, right in the middle of his birthday party Thor heard the Good Humor truck coming. Festivities were brought to a halt while he ran around the house to see his friend and get another ice cream treat. —O’PEARL BRANE. Marion, a summer resident of Sechrist Lake, spent June 22 and 23 at Indianapolis where she attended the Indiana state, high school

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was followed by action when Kay started enlarging the crawl space and a small four-foot-wide storage area under the house.

baseball championship play off at Bush Stadium. Mrs. Brane’s grandson, Mel Wysong, is coach of the Marion Giants championship baseball team. Wysong played on the Giants team in 1968 when Marion placed second in the state finals. This year the Giants defeated Perry-Meridian High School to win their first state baseball championship. —o— GRANDMOTHER SAYS, "When you get up in the morning you need to decide whether you are going to be a grouch or a blessing this day." —o— IN THE hospital: Charles Scott, Estella Miller, Myrtle Foltz and Mac Benson, KCH: Mildred Kilpatrick, Cheryl Leedy and Velma Ott, Goshen Hospital, Goshen; Forrest Richards, marion General Hospital, Marion; Helen Crowell, Charles Presley, ICU; Bob Ritchie and Alberta Urban, Parkview, Fort Wayne. -o— A NEW wheelchair ramp was installed recently at the North Webster Library by Lakeland Kiwanis Club. Not only can handicapped persons now easily enter the building but also mothers with babies in strollers.

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Using two buckets, a pick, shovel and wheel barrow, she tried to spend at least one hour a day working on the project. The work continued rain or shine, summer and winter. According to Kay, “Neighbors told me I could dump the dirt on low spots in their lawns. On a good day I could haul out 32 wheel barrows full of dirt.” The basement, which now ex-

The parking space next to the ramp has been marked, “Handicapped Parking.” Anyone parking a vehicle in that spot without a state approved handicapped license plate will have his or her car towed away at the owner’s expense. —O'JUNE WAS adopt a cat month and this reporter must admit, with redfaced embarrassment, that she missed the whole thing. The cat is so disgusted with my absent mindedness she won’t even sit on my lap and I’ve apologized several times. Bouquets to Marilyn Thrasher, who took adopt a cat month to heart, visited the Kosciusko County Humane Shelter and adopted two new feline friends. Andy, is a one-year-old, blue eyed, male Siamese. Puff, is a two-year-old male. American long hair with beautiful gray hair. According to Morris, who speaks for cats everywhere, some of the necessary requirements and qualities a human needs to be accepted by a cat are: loveable, good with a can opener, patient and understanding, have a good sense of humor and be prompt with din-din. —O'HAPP Y BIRTHDAY to; Neil Wright and Ruth Mickley, July 1; Mitchel Miller, July 2; Forrest Miller, Joshua Miller and Mark Coy, July 3; Barbie Signorelli and Judy White, July 4; Lester Wright, July 5; Shirley Presley and Ruth Rose, July 6; Melissa Wagoner, Pam Salven, Chris Waldrop, Edythe Clapper, 90 years old and Richard Hinton. July 7; Billy Martin, Hubert Wolfe and Sam Wug, July 8; Penny Hollis, July 9; Annette Hall, Stan Hamman and Joe Beezley, July 13; Beth Buhrt and Pearl Browning, July 15; Eldon Clayton, Emily Matz and Russell Adams, July 16; Jean Wiseman, July 18; Lyle Haney and Allen Hart, July 19; Jean Dungan, July 20; Jimmy Hall, Rachele Wright and Charles Towriss, July 21; Lisa Wagoner and Bob Kimmel. July 23; Pam Unruh and Lucas Baker, July 24; Dora Maurer; Stacy Neterer, Steve Stucko, Nancy Hill and Matthew Bankie, July 25; Florence Van Meter, July 26; Cindy Lundy and Nancy Vanator, July 27; Donna Whittjnghill and Rita Slankard, July 29; Erin McCray and Bob Cripe. July 30;

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tends under the entire house, was done in three stages. First the storage area was enlarged, a utility room was added and then what Kay calls, “My hide-away room” was completed. The basement can be entered from an outside door under the front porch or a trap door located in the floor of an upstairs bedroom closet. Kay reworked and painted a discarded exten-

Paul Thornburg and Anna Marie Pritchett, July 31. —O’NORTH WEBSTER Senior Citizens will meet July 11 at North Webster Church of God. —o— THE ANNUAL UMW Tea is planned for July 17 with all Circles at North Webster United Methodist Church participating. —o— BOUQUETS TO Mr. and Mrs. Jesse LeCount who observed their 75th wedding anniversary on June 24 with a reception held at North Webster United Methodist Church. —O—NEW BOOKS at the library. Adult-non-fiction: “The Great Chiefs,” by Benjamin Capps; “The Book Os Stillmeadow,” by Gladys Taber; Paint and Wallpaper,” by Time-Life Books; “The Nazis,” by Robert Edwin Herzstein; “Queen Os France,” by Andre Castelot; "Nicholas And Alexandra,” by Robert K. Massie; “Salt Water Flies,” by Kenneth E. Bay; “Landscaping And The Small Garden," by Marjorie J. Dietz; “Humphrey Bogart,” by Nathaniel Benchley; “Immortals Os The Screen;” by Ray Stuart; "Garden and Field Birds,” by Jiri Feliz: ‘‘Controlled Cheating,” by Larry Goldbert; "The Champion’s Guide To Bowling,” by Dick Weber. Adult fiction: “Lady,” by Thomas Tryon; "Looking For Mr. Goodbar,” by Judith Rossner; “A Rose For Virtue,” by Norah Lofts; “My Pride, My Folly,” by Suzanne Butler; “The Rhinemann Exchange,” by Robert Ludlum; “Valhalla,” by Jere Peacock; "The Mallon Lot” by Catherine Cookson; “A Cry of Whiteness’, by Thomas J. Fleming; s"The Dogs Os War,” by Frederick Forsyth; “The Infinite Womhn,” by Edison Marshall; "Conagher,” by Louis L’Amour; "Chronicle Os The Calypso, Clipper," by John Jennings. Juvenile non-fiction: ‘‘A Child’s Book Os Flowers,” by Irma Wilde. —o— HAPPY BIRTHDAY America! —o— TILL NEXT week...

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HIDE-AWAY — Kay Wilson of Sechrist Lake is shown in the basement hide-away she constructed at her home.

sion ladder and turned it into a decorative set of steps to be used for entering and leaving the basement through the trap door. She laughed, “Putting the cement floor in here was a family project. The cement truck couldn’t get close enough, because of the steep hill, to pour the floor. So, my brother-in-law, Harold Henry and I, pushed wheelbarrows full of cement to a basement window where we dumped it onto a board shoot. My sister, Lucille, pushed it down the shoot into the basement and my sister, Jo Henry and my brother, Howard Fulton, spread and leveled the wet cement. I must admit that one wheelbarrow full of cement got away from me and upset on down the hill. Howard, who is 72 years old, layed the cement block walls under the house.

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Several years ago, while she was still working on the basement, a neighbor asked Kay what she wanted for Christmas. Her reply was, “You know, I could really use a new galvanized bucket.” She got her bucket. The hide-away room is very comfortable and attractive with white walls and green carpeting. One section of wall is covered with a foilage pattern wallpaper in shades of green and gold on a white background. There is a red, metal, electric fireplape in the east end of the room and the furniture is white, wrought iron-style, with red cushions. An easy chair to the right of the fireplace is covered with gold-colored fabric. A wide ledge shelf around the room’s top row of cement blocks is tastefully decorated with what-nots and colorful candles. A large mirror over the fireplace adds to the

spacious appearance of the 12 by 20 foot room. At the present time Kay, who is 65 years old, is digging out a drive way to the garage and building a small patio area, with a wishing well, on the south side of her house. A few years ago she dug out a large patio area behind the house, layed a brick floor in it and carried rocks from a neighbor’s yard to shore up an embankment around one side of the patio. Kay’s determination and philosophy “You can do anything you really want to do” may be inherited. She is a direct decendant of Robert Fulton, the man who built the first steam boat. Does she have any plans for future projects? “Oh yes, I’m thinking about building a screened in area under the deck on the front of the house.” Kay, with the help of a neighbor, Allen Hart, built the deck several summers ago. At the present time she is looking for a spiral staircase to put in the basement so guests won’t have to use the trap door in the bedroom closet to enter and leave her hide-away room. Hi Neighbors meet in old mock school The Hi Neighbors Club met June 28 at the old Mock School House with Alta Darr and margaret Darr as hostesses. Wendy Roberts was a guest. Roll Call response was, “What do you consider a bargain at the grocery store?” A birthday auction of strawberry jam was enjoyed. Refreshments of donuts, punch and assorted crackers were served. Mary Mock and Avelda Roberts will be hostesses for the July meeting.